News from the Week of 11/15-11/19

Science has kept us busy this week. We have learned about the three rock types - sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic and how they are formed. We used play dough to make models of each rock type. We have been reviewing for our test at the same time. Your child should have brought home partially filled in study sheets in his/her Friday Folder. These need to be reviewed before the test. We will continue to complete them on Monday and Tuesday, so they need to be brought back to school in the Friday Folder. The science test is on Wednesday. Please help your child review for it at home. It was great to meet with many of you during conferences! Thanks for making the effort to find out how your child is progressing. If you ever have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at any time. In math we continued our unit on measurement. We talked about customary and metric forms of measurement and the language and tools used for each one. We will continue and expand this concept next week. The children have been working diligently on their songs and reader's theater script for the Thanksgiving Show. We hope you can join us on Wednesday at 9:30AM to see the culmination of all their hard work. Please make sure your child is on time to school that day and well rested for the performance. Next week will be the last installment of the organizational plan for third grade. Expect to see the assignment notebook come home with all the assignments sheets attached to it. Keeping them in one place should help the children keep track of what work needs to be accomplished. Continued adult supervision of their work is needed until they mature into fully independent workers. Just a reminder...the Friday Folder needs to be emptied except for the "Study Papers" side. These papers need to stay in the folder for review. Any papers to be "reviewed and removed" that are left in the folder will be purged at school by Friday.